Stockwell is known, for example, from the television series Quantum Leap, but also from David Lynch’s drama Blue Velvet or Wim Wenders’ film Paris, Texas.
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Stockwell’s agent announced that the actor died of natural causes on Sunday, November 7.
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Stockwell received an Oscar and four Emmy nominations for Quantum Leap for his performance in 1988’s Mafia Marriage.
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Stockwell has been acting for seven decades and was a Hollywood veteran before he reached adolescence, the AP agency wrote.
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After his 20th year, he starred on Broadway and starred in quality films, such as Sons and Lovers in 1960.
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A year earlier, he had received the Best Actor award in Cannes for his performance in the crime film Coercion, and again the same award three years later for Sidney Lumet’s Journey to a Long Day’s Night.
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Films made in the 1980s can be considered his most successful period.
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“I still work as I did in the beginning – completely intuitively and instinctively. But as your life progresses, you gain millions of experience and information, so you have more and more scope, ”he said in an interview in 1987.
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